Zachary Kramer
Principal Software Engineer at Cognex Corporation
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolZachary Kramer is a Principal Software Engineer based in Cologne with eight years of experience building high-performance, real-time applications for heterogeneous embedded multi-core systems. Grounded in machine vision, he blends deep expertise in C and modern C++ with embedded Linux, driver development, and multi-threaded optimization to squeeze predictable performance from complex hardware. His background spans DevOps, QA, and tooling—having improved CI pipelines and ported PC algorithms to embedded platforms for 4x speedups—so he thinks across the full product lifecycle from kernel to networking. A former researcher and astronomically minded developer, he has applied parallelization techniques (OpenMP) and advanced diagnostics to both scientific modelling and production imaging systems. Fluent in German studies and technical development, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level approach to writing clean, efficient code that surfaces subtle memory and concurrency issues before they reach production.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, German Language and Literature, Honors, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, German Language and Literature, Honors, Senior at Northern Arizona UniversityComputer Science and German, Computer Science and German at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
English, German
Stackoverflow
183reputation
58kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (17)
inverse9
pest8
tkinter6
logging6
python6
dataframe6
javascript6
r6
prediction-model5
sensitivity4
uncertainty4
parameter-estimation3
uncertainty-quantification2
scalable2
ensembles2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zstanko-usgs/flopy
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
python-packagepythonmodflow
zstanko-usgs/pestpp
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
tools for scalable and non-intrusive parameter estimation, uncertainty analysis and sensitivity analysis
Contributions:12 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 years
scalablesensitivity-analysisanalysisuncertainty-quantificationparameter
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